Bush campaign asserts Kerry is "sports pandering" Red Sox ALC

[TaleWgnDg]

"News From Mudville: Bush Team Slams Kerry's Red Sox Pitch

"By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 22, 2004; Page C01

"Shortly before the start of Wednesday night's decisive game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, the Bush campaign carpet-bombed reporters with an e-mail that accused John Kerry of 'sports pandering.' The (Bush campaign) release ridiculed the Massachusetts senator for being 'against sports before he was for them" and went on to catalogue 'Kerry's sports flubs' -- such as when he called the Green Bay Packers' stadium 'Lambert Field' (instead of Lambeau Field) and when he referred to nonexistent Red Sox slugger 'Manny Ortiz' (a hybrid of actual sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz).

"The Bushies were attempting to spin Kerry's triumphant association with his hometown Red Sox -- who were on their way to the World Series -- into something that feeds their recurring caricature: that he is not a real sports fan but someone who poses as one.

" 'After 86 years of failure, why would anyone in their right mind fake being a Red Sox fan?' asks Kerry spokesman David Wade.

"Sports allegedly offer sanctuary from the tiresome realities of life -- work, relationships and presidential campaigns. The last example does not apply this year. Indeed, the culmination of the baseball season has never been so inexorably linked to the culmination of a presidential race. The incumbent is the former owner of the Texas Rangers, who studies box scores as strenuously as he does anything else in the newspaper, if not more so. The other team from Bush's home state, the Houston Astros, was playing for the National League championship last night. The Astros' signature player, former Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens, is a big Bush supporter and a friend of the president's father.

"Kerry has aggressively linked himself with the American League champion Red Sox, a franchise whose post season disasters generally parallel those of Massachusetts liberals who run for president. But the team's underdog persistence -- especially in vanquishing the powerful Yankees -- gives it widespread appeal with which Kerry is trying to associate himself. He has taken every opportunity to assert his citizenship in Red Sox Nation -- in debates, interviews and speeches, even before the team won the pennant.

" 'We all want the same things,' Kerry said in Elyria, Ohio, the day after the Red Sox defeated the Anaheim Angels in the first round of the playoffs. 'We want our country to be respected in the world, we want good jobs and we all want to beat the New York Yankees! ' "


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53128-2004Oct21.html?nav=hcmodule
(as last visited Friday, October 22, 2004)(Washington Post online requires a FREE registration for access to its contents but for its front page.)

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Quite a lot of WashingtonPost words -- some of which are negative -- to say that Kerry is rooting for his own hometown baseball team that hasn't won a World Series since 1918! And, who broke the so-called "The Babe's Curse" after beating the New York Yankees in their own stadium in the Bronx on Wednesday night. Kerry's not entitled to savor this? LOL
THIS IS MY 1,000th DU post !! hey . . .


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[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. They are such losers

the Bushies. Not my beloved Sox!

[mindfulNJ]

2. jeez they are DESPERATE...

eom

[KittyWampus]

8. Stupidity So Grotesque We Must All LOOK AWAY!

[maddezmom]

3. what a bunch of bullshit

they sure have been grasping lately.... :)

[Arioch]

4. Sitting here in Boston

laughing at the pathetic Bushies spining down, down around the bowl...

:D

[proud patriot]

5. bushco is REALLY desperate aren't they ?

[DrZeeLit]

6. Great 1000th Post -- Go Sox...

... can't believe it. Kerry and the rest of the northeast (Boston, Massachusetts, and even up here in Vt) deserve to wallow in the moment. Too bad about the Texas teams.... NOT.

[TaleWgnDg]

22. exactly !!

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[Sequoia]

34. You said it!

I was so happy the Cardinals won. It's going to be a fantastic Series! Texas lost, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

[acmavm]

7. Not one accomplishment can bush* campaign on, NOT ONE. So he

has to slam Kerry over everything he does. Kerry has been and is the one thing bush* is not, and that is a success. He's been a success at everything he's ever done. And he showed up for his tour of duty in the military. None of which applies to bush*. None of it.

I love the smell of desperation in the air coming from the White House this year.

[Randi_Listener]

9. How fucking desperate....?

Are these fucking dipshits?

[fishnfla]

10. This is such a very important issue

thats it, I'm voting for Bush.

[sonicx]

11. Kerry should hit back with...

"bush traded sosa"

;)

[fishnfla]

17. good one

good example of his mismanagement

[camero]

12. What a bunch of losers

Since we all know the New Yawk BFEE would never stoop to cheating.

>sarcasm

[Dem2theMax]

37. camero, I LOVE your sig pic.

Could not believe A-Rod acting like he didn't do it on purpose.
I hope Boston shows that replay on the big screen whenever that jerk is in Fenway in the future. lol.

[BeyondGeography]

13. For Crying Out Loud!

Bush is just pissed because he's a jealous RANGER fan who spends more time thinking about baseball than he does his job (which, admittedly) isn't saying a lot.

[DU9598]

14. They would know

If anyone knows how to pander, just look toward the * administration.

[readmylips]

15. well little bush, you claim to be a cowboy...where's your horse?

and I don't mean cheney.

[brentspeak]

19. No self-respecting horse would bear Bush

they'd unsaddle that phoney faster than a clown at the rodeo.

[brentspeak]

16. So that wasn't Kerry playing hockey with the Bruins?

Must've been some other sports fan...

[progressivebydesign]

18. And giving a FAT unprecendented TAX BREAK TO NASCAR ISNT???

I'm so sick of those hypocritical fuckers. THEY just gave a FAT tax break to Nascar and other corporate sports institutions. God forbid Kerry wear a hat from his HOMETOWN team.

Got Desperation?

[progressiveBadger]

20. Clemens is a friend of Bush?

And I thought he was just an asshole on the mound.

[TaleWgnDg]

21. doesn't that just tear you up? LOL

[JackDragna]

23. You mean like someone who pretends to be a pilot?

Oh, wait, that's not a bad thing. That's super-macho-Republican heroism! Bad me!

[cubsfan forever]

24. And Baby Bush wouldn't suck up

to the Astros ("a good ole Texas team")!? The Bushites were wetting themselves at the possibility of a "Texas vs Massachusetts World Series," and now all they do is say Kerry is playing politics! What a whiny, fussy, pouty little man. Thank you, St. Louis Cardinals!

Professor 2

Besides * traded Sammy Sosa, so how smart could he be?
Someone else mentioned this, too.

[truthisfreedom]

25. bwahahaha. he could get them a stadium using land-grabbing eminent

domain, but he couldn't make them win. bush is a loser, and a sore loser at that.

[Cha]

26. Congratulations on your big 1000th post, Tale!

What I want to know is ..does anyone think the public(swing voters) is buying this bullshit whiney crap from bush..

To me it's sour grapes..and if the voters think like I do then ..all that shit that bush is cryin' about is in vain!

[TaleWgnDg]

28. thanks !!

and I'll never understand those so-called "swing voters," never!




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[rocktivity]

27. They sent out the e-mail BEFORE Game 7? Suppose Boston had lost?

Even worse, suppose Houston had won--and then gone on to beat the Bosox?

The release ridiculed the Massachusetts senator for being "against sports before he was for them" and went on to catalogue "Kerry's sports flubs" -- such as when he called the Green Bay Packers' stadium "Lambert Field" (instead of Lambeau Field) and when he referred to nonexistent Red Sox slugger "Manny Ortiz" (a hybrid of actual sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz).

I've been joking that since the Bosox rose from the dead after three games to beat the Yankees, a significant chunk of Bush's Christian fundie base might interpret that as a sign that God prefers Kerry (especially if they go on to win the World Series). But the Bush campaign is obviously pissing in their pants over it if they're THIS desparate.

If Houston had won, no one would have blamed Bush for rooting for a Texas team even it if wasn't the Rangers. By sending out the e-mail when they did, Bush rendered himself unable to "sports pander" had Houston won, and he would have made a total fool of himself if Boston had lost. Bonehead play, Georgie. And as long as you want to compare "sports flubs," remember when you traded Sammy Sosa?

:headbang:
rocknation

[tmooses]

29. Oh Yes, The Bushies should Attack Kerry For Mispronouncing..

Some name. Their guy is so brain damaged from years of abusing alcohol
and coke he can't put a complete sentence together.

[Blue_Roses]

30. OMG--how childish.

We have people dying in Iraq and Bush is pouting because he's not the only one who likes baseball:eyes: LOL...give me freaking break...lol...

[Malva Zebrina]

31. Reads like desperation to me

How amusing. There is nothing better to do than trash these great photos of Kerry there with the guys?

Pure jealousy--Bush/Cheney has nothing to offer as to their "manhood"

In these photos, Kerry looks like a real, down to earth, full blooded man.

They are desperate.

[partisan to truth]

32. Congratulations!

I'm definitely a new member of DU (unfortunately I didn't find it sooner) but I aspire to reach the awe-inspiring 1000+ mark- again, congrats!

[TaleWgnDg]

33. thank you, and . . .

welcome to DU . . .

[Maccagirl]

36. If you are in search of the truth

you have come to the right place.

:hi:

[theophilus]

35. Quick somebody come up with about 1000 mis-statements Bush

has made about Sports. He makes them about everything else, there must be a bunch somewhere. (The fact that they traded away Sosa should be the kicker Kerry uses to shut this up, though!) :-)

[Lindacooks]

40. How about chimpy using the Iraqi Olympics team

in his ads? And how about the fact that the Iraqi Olympics team and the OAC asked Bush* to stop using them in the ad?

That certainly sounds like 'sports pandering' to me.

[mark414]

38. wait, this is real?

wtf, i thought it was a joke article??

[indie_voter]

39. I made it very plain we will not have an all-volunteer army.”

Uhhhh..whazzat you say....

“We will have an all-volunteer army.”

But wait, Kerry called Lambeau Field 'Lambert Field' and confused a couple sox players. STOP THE PRESSES.

[Sugarbleus]

41. Repukes say EVERYTHING Kerry does is "pandering"

Ever notice that?

[pinniped]

42. * and his ass sock puppet both went to baseball games...

to throw out pitches.

* went to NASCAR in an attempt to get some missing tooth votes.

Who else is glad * keeps talking about issues important to us?

* went beserk because there appear to be beer bottles in the picture. I hope the beer is domestic or that will give * another issue to attack Kerry on.:eyes: